Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:10:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: "J. A. Landamore" <jal@mcs.le.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting over two disks Message-ID: <39B7BDF1.6B5FF063@urx.com> References: <200009071437.PAA16330@ithaca.mcs.le.ac.uk>
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"J. A. Landamore" wrote: > > I have a user with a setup that has dos/w2k/freebsd on one disk and Windows98 on > a second disk. I am unable to get W98 to boot without disconnecting the first > disk. The bootloader comes up with option F5, disk 1, but that just boots the > first partition on the primary disk. I've looked at boot0cfg but that just > shows the 3 partitions on the primary disk. How can I let the user boot from > W98 as well as the other 3 partitions? I use the W2K loader for this exact case on several machines. It doesn't have any problems. You just add /boot/boot1 and something like bootsec.bsd on your "c" drive and add it to your boot.ini. Kent > > As an aside where does boot0cfg -v get the information from, is it fdisk, and > what does the falg field mean? > > Please reply to me directly as I don't subscribe to the mailing list. > > Thanks for your help > > John Landamore | Please re-install Universe | > Sys. Admin | and reboot | > Dept Mathematics & Computer Science | | > University of Leicester | Hogfather | > University Road, LEICESTER, LE1 7RH | Terry Pratchett | > J.Landamore@mcs.le.ac.uk > Phone: +44 (0)116 2523410 Fax: +44 (0)116 2523604 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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